Happy to be making a presentation about iPad painting at Apple's Flagship Store on Union Square in SF

About Claire Iris Schencke

I create visual jazz on my iPad.

Like jazz itself, my paintings are improvised during live performances.

As a pioneering mobile digital artist, I’ve been invited to present my iPad art at The International Association
of Mobile Artists in New York City, at Apple’s flagship store on Union Square in San Francisco, and for the last three years at the Mobile Art Academy held in Palo Alto in the heart
of Silicon Valley. My iPadJAZZart paintings hav also been exhibited at Humboldt State University, LACDA, the Digital Art Museum in Los Angeles, and at the Morris Graves Museum.
I have developed a curriculum for beginning and advanced iPad art students. I have given my iPad painting workshops at Humboldt State University, at Eureka Studio Arts and the Mendocino
Art Center. My formal art education consists of art history studies at Stockholm University, and fine art studies at College of the Redwoods, Humboldt State University and Konstfack in
Sweden.

This transformative new art form has only existed for six years during which time I have had five iPads and created a large
portfolio of paintings, and had a lot of fun.

While an international product manager at Apple, I was seated next to Steve Jobs at his 27th birthday party at
the Chantilly restaurant in the SF Bay Area. We shared an interest in ergonomic design. I know he would have been thrilled at this innovative combination of technology and fine
art.

I have painted on my iPad during live jazz performances at the Monterey Jazz Festival, at the Jazz Center and
Yoshi’s in San Francisco, at the Arcata Playhouse, Center Arts at Humboldt State University, Morris Graves Art Museum, and in clubs in Los Angeles and Portland. I have
a series of iPad jazz art from three recent Jazz Cruises.

I am a frequent contributor to online forums with a wildly diverse group of mobile digital artists from the whole world. We
inspire and challenge each other, tutor each other in new techniques and explore new apps.

What do I like about using the iPad for painting?

The obvious advantage is the portability. Such a powerful computer in such a sleek small package! And how great to not have
any mess, fumes or clean up to deal with.

The apps are inexpensive. Most of them cost less than $10. The fine art apps are multiplying and
becoming highly versatile and professional.

The easy online connectivity is a new dimension in art. When you have a finished piece of iPad work you can email it, post it
to your favorite social media site and to your blog, directly from your iPad.

And of course you can exhibit your fine iPad art on screens, as well as print them on canvas, metal or paper.